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Electronic Body Music, more commonly referred to as EBM, is a genre of alternative electronic music with a history spanning over three decades. The classic EBM sound can be characterized by minimal synth and rhythm structures combined with "clean" production techniques.
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Drawing inspiration from noise music, electro-industrial and IDM, rhythmic noise combines harsh synths with heavily distorted beats.
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As IDM shares many influences with mainstream genres of electronic music such as Techno and House, many of the hardware synthesizers, grooveboxes and drum machines popular in the 1980s and 1990s acid and rave culture have found their way into IDM as well. The Roland TB-303 and TR-606 are two of the most noteworthy pieces of equipment to fall under this category.
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The table below shows gear used most by breakcore artists. Click the name of a piece of music equipment to read more about it.
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The table below shows gear used most by industrial rock bands. Click the name of a piece of music equipment to read more about it.
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The table below shows gear used most by digital hardcore bands. Click the name of a piece of music equipment to read more about it.
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While EBM was experiencing a surge in popuarlity in Europe in the early 1980s, electronic bands in North American such as Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly were establishing a far more experimental sound. Now known as electro-industrial, the genre is defined by harsh, distorted and complex rhythms and synth lines.
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Being one of the earliest electronic music subgenres established, synthpop has its roots firmly set in vintage analog synthesis. Some of the first pre-synthpop recordings of the early 1960s were made with early synthesizer technologies, however it was not until the 1970s when Moog, ARP, Korg, Roland and others began producing a new wave of powerful synthesizers that the genre was able to come into its own.
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The table below shows gear used most by dark ambient artists. Click the name of a piece of music equipment to read more about it.
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The table below shows gear used most by industrial metal bands. Click the name of a piece of music equipment to read more about it.
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The table below shows gear used most by noise artists. Click the name of a piece of music equipment to read more about it.
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